Tomoko Mukai engages with cultural and spatial projection through computer-generated optical landscapes. Her approach aims to provide intuitive experiences focusing on complex relationships between information, memory and bodily perception shared in social life. She has presented them at various kinds of sites as cultural and historical hubs in local communities, namely architectures as cultural heritage, a church, temples, shrines, former school, river and cultural institutions like museums and halls. As community design projects, she works on the utilization of cultural heritage and art resources in local communities. She proposes exhibition design from aspects of museum informatics and organizes workshops for children in the cooperation with cultural and educational institutes such as museums and libraries. She emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration with other different fields of professions. In such collaborations, she fosters to stride across the boundary of platforms for expressions between different genres.

Educational background
03.1991 Bachelor of Arts, the Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design at Musashino Art University (MAU), Tokyo, Japan
12.1996 Master of Audio-Visual Media, The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), GermanyGrant of Arts internship and Scholarship
10/1993 – 09/1995 Scholarship of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany
06/2000 – 03/2001 Grant of Arts Internship of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, at the Department of Intermedia Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JapanTeaching Experience
04/2008 – 05/2018 Associate professor in the Communication Design Course (since 2012, abolition and integration of courses under the department), at the Department of Design, College of Art, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan,
04/2017– 10/2017 Visiting researcher at the International School of Design (KISD), Faculty of Culture and Society, University of Technology, Arts, Sciences (TH), Cologne, Germany
10/2009 Exchange program for university professors, Lectureship, Communication University of China, Beijing and Nanjing Campus, China
04/2005 – 03/2008 Assistant professor at the Communication Design Course, the Department of Design, College of Art, Nihon University, Japan, Tokyo, Japan 04/2001 – 03/2007 Part-time lectureship for the Department of Information Design at the Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
04/2004 – 03/2005 Assistant curator and research associate in the Art Information Section at the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
04/2001 –03/2004 Curatorial associate in the Art Information Section at the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
10/2001 –03/2002 Part-time lectureship, in the Course of Culture as Representation, the Department of Language and Culture, Undergraduate Faculty, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan,
04/2001 –03/2002 Part-time lectureship, at the Department of Media Arts, the College of Art and Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan
04/2000 –03/2002 Part-time lectureship, at the Course of Media Zokei Major, the Department of Design, the Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan